The latest rainfall data for Edinburgh Gogarbank is as follows:
Data For Recent Days24 Hour Total up to 9am GMT (09:00 UTC) this morning: 0.2 mm
Monthly DataFinal Total for February 2024: 54.8 mm (89.7% of 1991-2020 average).
Number of rain days during February 2024: 15 (140.2% of 1991-2020 average).
Number of dry days during February 2024: 7
February 2024 was substantially wetter than average in terms of the number of rain days.
However, this rainfall never really amounted to all that much at any time and because of that, the actual rainfall amounts for February 2024 were actually slightly below average once again.
Seasonal DataFinal total for winter 2023-2024: 237.6 mm (113.7% of 1991-2020 winter average)
Number of rain days during winter 2023-2024: 44 (118.7% of 1991-2020 winter average).
Number of dry days during winter 2023-2024: 24
The winter of 2023-2024 was wetter than average overall both in terms of the actual rainfall amounts, and in terms of the number of rain days.
In terms of the actual rainfall amounts though, this is very heavily skewed by what happened during December 2023 which in those terms, ended up being the winter's only wetter than average month here.
Annual DataTotal for this year so far: 126.2 mm (16.1% of 1991-2020 annual average).
Number of rain days during this year so far: 27 (19.6% of 1991-2020 annual average).
Number of dry days during this year so far: 17
NoteThis data has been obtained from
https://www.ogimet.com in raw BUFR format, and then converted into a more readable form by my own python script.
The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.